Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catch a Thief. At Quincy House Dining Hall, Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10. With Dial M For Murder...
...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...
...flurry of post-Watergate books, Victor Lasky's It Didn't Start With Watergate has a unique record. Released last April, it justifiably drew blistering reviews, yet climbed to the bestseller lists and stayed there. (Dial Press has 115,000 copies in print and plans to publish 10,000 more.) The reason seems to be that Lasky tells readers something that quite a few of them want to hear: that abuse of presidential power did not start with Richard Nixon. No responsible authority, of course, ever claimed that it did. But, not content to refute a charge that...
...CHARLES SCHWARTZ 365 pages. Dial Press...
...ABANDONED WOMAN by RICHARD CONDON 317 pages. Dial...